Payroll accounting affects many parties at once. The employee, their department, accounting, tax authorities and social insurance institutions depend on every single payroll statement. In addition to the experts in the company, payroll offices and tax consultancy firms often work on this task as well. You must keep an eye on changing tax and social insurance rates as well as new legal situations.
The advanced course assumes basic knowledge of payroll and salary accounting. The focus is on special payroll groups such as short-term employees and multiple job holders. Pensioners as well as trainees, students and interns are also covered. In addition, the tax and social insurance treatment of one-off payments is addressed.
Further topics are partial pay periods and maternity protection with its special features. The course also covers asset formation and company pension schemes. The qualification provides you with theoretical and practical knowledge on these topics. As a DATEV education partner, IBB works in an always up-to-date original DATEV system, according to its own information.
You can take the course full-time or part-time. Full-time it lasts 4 weeks, part-time 8 weeks. The next start date on the course page is 07.09.2026 in full-time. IBB lists further dates and locations directly on the course page. Participation from home is possible according to the provider.
The continuing education is aimed at employees in the payroll office, accounting and personnel administration. The provider also names HR management and self-employed individuals as target groups. Basic HR knowledge and basic knowledge of financial accounting, as provided by commercial training, are required. You should also be able to use the DATEV Lohn Pro program.
At the end you receive an in-house certificate or a certificate of attendance. The qualification is intended to enable you to take on independent responsibility in payroll accounting. IBB points to many job advertisements for qualified specialists in payroll accounting. I find working in the real DATEV system useful because that's exactly what you need on the job.
The course has the course number K-2474-5 at the provider. It is also included in several course packages, for example in "Personnel Administration with Focus on DATEV Payroll and Salary". If you are looking for the complete package, it's worth taking a look at these compilations. For the individual module, you submit a non-binding course inquiry to IBB.
